Current ProjectsKeltic Petrochemicals Petrochemical and Maple LNG Complex
www.kelticpetrochemicals.ca Keltic Petrochemicals of Halifax has proposed a billion dollar petrochemical plant and a co-generation plant with associated marine marginal wharf. Maple LNG, the Canadian subsidiary of Petroplus of Holland has proposed a liquefied natural gas regasification facility, marine LNG receiving terminal. The LNG will supplement the feedstock for the polyethylene, and polypropylene complex. Keltic Petrochemicals Inc. is proposing to develop, construct, and operate a world-scale petrochemical plant in Goldboro, Nova Scotia. When completed, the facility will consist of an ethylene, polyethylene, propylene and polypropylene plants as well as a supporting cogeneration plant and a receiving terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG). The petrochemical complex will be the first of its kind in Atlantic Canada. Keltic will extract the ethane and the propane from the both LNG and natural gas that comes on shore at Goldboro. The ethane and propane will be converted into ethylene and propylene and further processed into polyethylene and polypropylene resin (plastic pellets). The resin will be sold to manufacturers for use in the production of consumer and industrial plastic products. Keltic will have an annual production capacity of 1,450,000 tonnes. Power for the complex will come from a 100MW gas fired co-generation unit. A marginal wharf will be constructed to allow the import of wet product and the shipping of plastic pellets. The LNG terminal will be separated from the marginal terminal and will be dedicated to receiving LNG shipments.
Deep Panuke In 1996, EnCana became the operator of Canada's first commercial offshore petroleum project, the Cohasset-Panuke Project. By the time the Cohasset and Panuke fields completed production late in 1999, EnCana had produced 44 million barrels of light, sweet crude. While producing oil from Panuke, a significant natural gas reservoir was discovered at Deep Panuke. Deep Panuke is located in a porous carbonate reservoir 3,400 to 3,600 metres below the seafloor, approximately 250 kilometres southeast of Halifax on the Scotian Shelf. The gas pool was discovered in 1998 and additional drilling in 1999 and 2000 confirmed the presence of a significant gas accumulation. Deep Panuke natural gas is very lean (with low volumes of associated gas liquids) and slightly sour, meaning it contains hydrogen sulphide that must be removed before shipment to market. In March 2002, EnCana filed a development plan application (DPA) with the Canada–Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB), and applied to the National Energy Board for a certificate of public convenience and necessity. The Deep Panuke reserve is estimated to contain less than 1TCF of recoverable natural gas, with an 10 year anticipated production life and a design life of 10 years. Deep Panuke is expected to be into production by the fall of 2010. The subsea pipeline prepartion work is currently underway. 
Figure 5.2-1: Proposed Deep Panuke Offshore Gas Development
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The market-ready sweet gas will flow via a subsea pipeline to Goldboro, Nova Scotia . There it will enter the Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline (M&NP) main transmission pipeline for transport to markets in Canada and the northeastern United States. The subsea pipeline to bring the gas to shore is expected to have a normal outside diameter of 610 mm (24 inches). The proposed route is approximately 175 km long, and follows the existing Sable Offshore Energy Incorporated (SOEI) pipeline corridor for approximately 75 to 85 percent of the route. Deep Panuke's onshore facilities include the onshore portion of the pipeline, three to four kilometres long, and the junction, which will connect it to M&NP's main line, downstream of the SOEI gas processing plant at Goldboro. The junction facility will cover an area of about 40 m by 40 m
SOEP Tier II The Sable Offshore Energy Project includes six offshore natural gas fields that are being developed in phases. Production from the first three fields Venture, North Triumph and Thebaud began on December 31, 1999 . Development of the second phase has begun ahead of schedule and Alma and South Venture are already online. 
Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline Expansion Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline (www.mnpp.com) announced it has executed precedent transportation agreements with two major international energy companies proposing to construct liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals in Atlantic Canada. Maritimes has signed with Anadarko Petroleum Corporation to transport 813,000 MMBtu/day of natural gas from the proposed Bear Head LNG terminal near Point Tupper, Nova Scotia; and with Repsol YPF to transport 750,000 MMBtu/day of natural gas from the proposed Canaport LNG terminal near Saint John, New Brunswick. The agreements are for transportation service to markets in Atlantic Canada and the northeastern United States. Pipeline transportation service from both the Bear Head site and the Canaport site is planned to commence in 2008. Maritimes would increase its capacity in both Canada and the United States to transport natural gas from the Bear Head terminal and the Canaport terminal. Maritimes will now commence work on detailed engineering design and stakeholder consultation for a system expansion, leading to regulatory applications in late 2005 or early 2006 to the National Energy Board and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline L.P. and Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline L.L.C. are owned by affiliates of Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) (77.53 percent), Emera Inc. (12.92 percent) and Exxon Mobil Corporation (9.55 percent). Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline is headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with an additional office in Waltham, Mass.
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